[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] Each nation having different monetary unit

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, jshort@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Baumans wrote:
>> 
> 
> <snip comparison of "gold" versus arbitrary monetary unit>
> 
>> Of course, I can't (easily) see a way to
>> fix them(especially the
>> length problem).
> 
> Um, it's easy to fix on a case-by-case basis.  Just pad the output
> of whatever string you're printing to.  Almost all of the strings
> should be created with sprintf and friends, so it should be easy.

You can't.  Firstly, there is not necessarily any relation between
strlen(s) and the number of characters (not bytes) in it; in
particular this does not hold true in a UTF-8 locale.

Secondly, there's the i18n issue.  A lot of language have more
complicated ways to form plurals than English; have a look at a recent
GNU gettext manual if you're interested.

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